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This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Constituent collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a "User") of the https://the-constituent.com website ("Site"). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by The Constituent.

Personal identification information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the siteplace an orderfill out a formrespond to a survey and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, and/or phone number.

We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

Web browser cookies

Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How we use collected information

The Constituent collects and uses Users personal information for the following purposes:

To improve customer service

Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

To personalize user experience

We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.

To improve our Site

We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.

To process transactions

We may use the information Users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.

To send periodic emails

The email address Users provide for order processing, will only be used to send them information and updates pertaining to their order. It may also be used to respond to their inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Site.

Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. Our Site is also in compliance with PCI vulnerability standards in order to create as secure of an environment as possible for Users.

Google Adsense

Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google\'s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses "non personally identifiable information" and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Compliance with children\'s online privacy protection act

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Constituent has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, revise the updated date at the bottom of this page,send you an email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

The Constituent https://the-constituent.com info@the-constituent.com

This document was last updated: May 26, 2015

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Privacy and Terms of Service

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Constituent collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a "User") of the https://the-constituent.com website ("Site"). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by The Constituent.

Personal identification information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the siteplace an orderfill out a formrespond to a survey and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, and/or phone number.

We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

Web browser cookies

Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How we use collected information

The Constituent collects and uses Users personal information for the following purposes:

To improve customer service

Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

To personalize user experience

We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.

To improve our Site

We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.

To process transactions

We may use the information Users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.

To send periodic emails

The email address Users provide for order processing, will only be used to send them information and updates pertaining to their order. It may also be used to respond to their inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Site.

Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. Our Site is also in compliance with PCI vulnerability standards in order to create as secure of an environment as possible for Users.

Google Adsense

Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google\'s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses "non personally identifiable information" and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Compliance with children\'s online privacy protection act

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Constituent has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, revise the updated date at the bottom of this page,send you an email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

About Sen. Bernard

SANDERS. Mr. President, the truth is that despite our rather big
egos, much of what we do in the Senate is pretty quickly forgotten.
People have a hard time remembering what we did 2 months ago or
yesterday, let alone last year. But I have a feeling that the Keystone
Pipeline bill we are now discussing and decisions that will be made
about that bill will not soon be forgotten--not by our children or our
grandchildren and not by people throughout the world and, in fact, not
by history. I believe that decades from now our kids and our
grandchildren will scratch their heads and they will say: What world
were these people--Members of Congress--living in in 2015 when they
voted for this Keystone Pipeline? How did it happen that they did not
listen to the overwhelming majority of scientists who told us we have
to cut greenhouse gas emissions, not increase them? I think our kids
and our grandchildren will be saying to us: Why did you do that to us?
Why did you leave this planet less habitable than it could have been?
The issue we are dealing with today is of huge consequence. I fear
very much that a majority of the Members in the Senate and in the
Congress are poised to make a very dangerous and wrong decision. In
that light, I am more than delighted that President Obama has indicated
he will veto this Keystone Pipeline bill if it is passed.

Climate change is one of the great threats not only facing our
country but facing the entire planet. It has the capability of causing
severe harm to our economy, to our food supply, to access to water, and
it raises all kinds of international national security issues.

Let me read an excerpt from a letter sent to the Senate back in
October 2009:
Observations throughout the world make it clear that
climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research
demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human
activities are the primary driver. These conclusions are
based on multiple independent lines of evidence, and contrary
assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment
of the vast body of peer-reviewed science.

Moreover, there is strong evidence that ongoing climate
change will have broad impacts on society, including the
global economy and on the environment. For the United States,
climate change impacts include sea level rise for coastal
states, greater threats of extreme weather events, and
increased risk of regional water scarcity, urban heat waves,
western wildfires, and a disturbance of biological systems
throughout the country. The severity of climate change
impacts is expected to increase substantially in the coming
decades.

This statement was signed by virtually every major scientific
organization in this country, including the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American
Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the
American Meteorological Society, and many other scientific
organizations.

Scientists are not the only people warning us about the danger of
climate change. Hear what the Department of Defense has to say about
the impact of climate change on international and national security.
What they point out--and I think what every sensible person
understands--is that when people are unable to grow the food they need
because of drought, when flood destroys their homes, when people
throughout the world are forced to struggle for limited natural
resources in order to survive, this lays the groundwork for the
migration of people and international conflict. That is what the
Department of Defense tells us.

Now, given all of the scientific evidence and given the concerns
raised by our own Department of Defense and national security experts
all over the world and given the fact that the most recent decade--the
last 10 years--was the Nation's warmest on record, one would think that
when the National Climate Assessment warns us that global warming could
exceed 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the United States by the end of the
century--can we imagine this planet becoming 10 degrees Fahrenheit
warmer and what this means to the planet? When sea levels have already
risen by nearly 7 inches over the last century and are expected to rise
another 10 inches to 2.6 feet by the end of the century--when all of
that is on the table, one would think this Senate would be saying: All
right, we have an international crisis. How do we reverse climate
change? Instead, what the debate is about is how we transport some of
the dirtiest oil in the world and thereby cause more carbon emissions
into the atmosphere.

I suspect our kids and our grandchildren will look back on this
period and say: What world were you living in? Why did you do that to
us?
It would seem to me that what we should be debating here is how we
impose a tax on carbon so that we can break our dependence on fossil
fuel. That is what we should be discussing, not how we increase carbon
emissions. We should be discussing what kind of legislation we bring
forward that moves us aggressively toward energy efficiency,
weatherization, and such sustainable energies as wind, solar, and
geothermal. That is the kind of bill that should be on the floor. We
should be having a debate about legislation that makes our
transportation system far more efficient, that expands rail and helps
us get cars and trucks off the road. We should be having a debate about
how we can create the kind of automobiles that run on electricity and
make them less expensive and how we can get cars running 80 to 100
miles per gallon. Those are the kinds of debates and that is the kind
of legislation we should be having on the floor, not how do we expand
the production and the transportation of some of the dirtiest oil on
the planet.

In my view, the U.S. Congress in a very profound way should not be in
the business of rejecting science because when we reject science, we
become the laughingstock of the world. How do we go forward? How do we
prepare legislation if it is not based on scientific evidence? And to
say to the overwhelming majority of scientists that we are ignoring
what they are telling us and we are going to move in exactly the wrong
direction I think makes us look like fools in front of the entire
world. How do we go forward and tell China and India and Russia and
countries around the world that climate change is a huge planetary
crisis at the same time as we are facilitating the construction of the
Keystone Pipeline?
So I am delighted the President will veto this legislation if it
happens to pass the Congress. Our job now is not to bring more carbon
into the atmosphere; it is to transform our energy system away from
coal, away from oil, away from fossil fuel, and toward energy
efficiency and sustainable energy. That should be the direction of this
country, and we should lead the world in moving in that direction.